Jewelry Making –Art II 

Art 202

Prerequisite: Art I; or Sophomore &/or permission of Instructor

Instructor: Mr. Saylor…Rm. 111

Recommended: Small ‘tackle-box’--a kit for holding tools, raw materials & projects

Safety goggles – to wear when grinding, polishing & other like tasks

Simple toothbrush for cleaning objects; simple tweezers for detail work

Required: Sketchbook AND Folder AND Lab Fee: $40. Per Semester

Provided: Limited amount of metal raw materials (such as copper, brass, nickel-silver)

Tool items as funds allow (such as files, jeweler’s saws, carvers, pliers)

Supplies as funds allow (such as sanding/polishing cloth & compound, solder

flux, saw blades, drills & grinding bits, etc.)

Local raw materials as available (such as shell, crystallized coral, and kryto-

crystalline silica—a jasper-like banded or ‘milky’ appearing stone)

Equipment as available (such as stone-saws, grinders, polishers, & drills,

soldering torches, vices, clamps, casting process specialty equipment)

Work aprons to protect clothing

Available: Traditional jeweler’s metal at student’s expense (such as silver, gold), and

natural stone raw material (such as onyx, agate, jasper, malachite, opal, etc.)

This class is being offered at the high school level in the tradition of ‘Art Metal’ courses available in many college and university art programs. Genuine jewelry such as pendants, rings, bracelets, necklaces or pins may be designed & formed. Inexpensive metals and local materials, or the more expensive and ‘off-island’ raw materials if preferred, can both be formed into unique, personal, attractive one-of-a-kind jewelry items to be worn, given as gifts or displayed as beautiful works of art. The student in this advanced art class is expected to be aware of the higher costs, and of the more challenging tasks included within the class structure.

Students enrolled in this class will, in the process of hands-on construction of decorative and wearable jewelry items of their own design, be able to recognize and demonstrate knowledge of:

1. Jewelry making & Art-Metal terminology and vocabulary common to the field,
2. Value and inter-relationship of form & function, from concept design to production,
3. Basic techniques of manipulating various metals in sheet and wire form,
4. Basic techniques of carving, cutting, grinding and polishing stone materials, and
5. Basic techniques of design & casting using the ‘lost wax’ process

Students are also expected to assemble a portfolio of their designs & to display their products.